The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-03-31
MARIETTA MATTERS.
a heavy frost Wednesday morning.

Mrs }. K. Toleson and family, Of All
lantaS; are visiting relatives in the city.
Mr. Henry C. White, Of Gadsden. wa,
in the city. last Tuesday
Easter Sunday comes on The 10th o.
April this year. Bishop Beckwith will b.
here on Sunday morning the 24th Of April.
The town is being taken literally y
English sparrows. These little pests are
everywhere
-IIirschs clothing stock is town talk.
A lady, Of this city, has "a picture one
hundred years old 1t is little different
from anything we see gotten up in tAis day
For the last three years the insurance
companies have raised their tariff, There
ought to be limit somewhere.
Mr. VIII Edmondston and Mr. Nathan
Alexander are putting up planning mills at
Austel.
Sessions, Handy & Co. will sell you d
sci Of goblets that you can drive nail witt
for 50cts
Hir8ch sells more shoes than any three
firms in Marietta
In the case Of Mr. Dick Hamilton, tried
last week on the charge Of arson, the jury
was out two days and nights and failed tc
agree, and were discharged
The Grand jury Of last week adjourn
ed Friday afternoon 10 Tuesday morning
Of this week and will complies their work
as speedily as possible
"A negro man named Alexander va.
run over aud killed by Georgia Pacific
railroad train last week at Middleton. He
was horribly maugled
Law is made for the lawess and not
for the law-abiding Those who break cigi
or divine law must expect to reap the con
sequences Of their aot- The way of the
transgressor is hard, and ever will be-
The booms are off a little in Chattanoo
ga, Birmingham and Gadsden, and Rome
has borrowed little OF their enthusiasm
and now boometh on large scale We are
| always glad to hear of Georgia town do
ing well.
Prompt paying lime customers will
! save money by buying at Hirsch & Son.
Garden Seeds Shoes Hata, Groceries
etc, at Sessions, Handy " Co, and they
want to sell them.
It is said tina wood pulp paper viii not
stand the wear Of age, but soon decays and
falls to pieces Legal documents written OF
printed on paper in which wood pulp enters
Units manufacture win give trouble to pos
terity.
Never let an opportunity slip to favor
ably impress stranger with your town, if
possible Be polite sociaole and friendly
take an interest in visitors, and always be
cheerful. 1t is the people who make a
town, and not the tom the people
The Grand Jury of last week was an
other body Of excellent men who did good
and efficient service, and discharged their
several duties iearlessly and with an eye
single TO the good Of society and the vindi-
cation Of law
Mr.. } K McKenney of this county
has kept the number Of days it raiaed for
the last nine years, and the record stands as
follows IN 1879, 1872 days 1879. l2j days
1850, l53 days, 1881, rs days 1882, $50
days 1888, l49 days, 1884, 1873 days; 1855
$50 days; and 1886 l27 days He has com
menced o. 1887.
Miss May Manning a charming young
lady Of Marietta, Ga, is visiting this place
to the delight Of our music loving pepula
ton, who will enjoy hearing her sing with
her father. Capt Geo NJ. Manning, who
is becoming well known in these parts
having spent several weeks among us
MnphH n G., Bulletin
Mr. Manning and Miss May have return
ed home.
The latest style stiff Hats and the not
best Searts in Marietta at Hirsch's
Say, Esq, where are YOU going? Tc
Marietta just to get 20 lbs of good Rice o.
Sessions, Handy q Co.
Some colored individual made raid
Oh Mrs T. II Shockley's flower YARD last
Friday night and stripped it of many Of it.
choicest flowers The thief left printed
card headed Glass Meeting Ticket. lie
that lendeth to the Lord, He will repay him
again. Received OF the Bearer Five Cents
The tbisf can have the card by calling al
this office, as he may want to leave the
card in the next yard he visits
A father is very foolish to allow bi,
daughter to marry stranger who has beer
in the town but few months, knowing
nothing of the past history Of the indiyilua
or as to whether he has wife elsewhere
The happiness Of many beautiful girls have
been blasted BY allowing the pleasing ad
dress of strangers TO captiyate their fancy
Yet we hear constantine marriages of thi,
kind, and we learn that one is soon to take
place in the vicinity of Marietta
If any one who has geese will pull
| their wings during the next six weeks, liz
each pair together, and leave them at Mr.
}. j. Northcutts store, they will ge
8 cents pair. Both white and gray want
ed.
A fresh lot Of Hams at Sessions Ham
by Il Co. 5.
The best 50 cent shirt in Georgia a
Hirsch's.
Mr. William Mcintosh, a hagman Oh
the East Tennessee, Virginia and George
Railroad, il getting on his train last Thurs
day night between Austell and the Chatta
hoochie river not knowing that the trar
was standing on the trestle at the time h,
jumped Oft, fell and broke his leg near tn,
ankle, which had to be amputated. Mr.
Mcintosh hives at Powder SIP ngs and i
a son Of the late Judge McIntosh who wa
killed by a train on the same road fey
years ago.
| - Mr. James COrpins WIN y,qs oouv;c+e,